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every effort has been made to make sure this electronic syllabus is error-free,
it is not official.The definitive source of course information remains the original (paper)
syllabus distributed in class.

Lycoming CollegeChem 440 Fall 2006

Advanced Organic
Chemistry

Course
description - This course is designed to further your understanding of
modern organic chemistry. The laboratory component of the class is meant
to introduce you (and me) to typical experiments within the discipline.

a. Advanced Organic Chemistry, Part A, fourth edition
by Carey and Sundberg (with readings from Part B as handouts)

b. Bound laboratory notebook by Freeman

c. Lab safety glasses

d.Calculator (add, subtract, multiply, divide, logs, exponents),
Please note: programmable calculators may not be used during quizzes and
exams

e.Chem 220-221 lab manual (your old one, whichever year it happens to
be)

Other
useful sources of information

a. Your 200-level organic chemistry text (McMurry)

b. Intermediate Organic Chemistry, by Stowell (in the reading
room)

c. Advanced Organic Chemistry, , by March (in the main
library, and reading room)

d. The chemical literature, specifically The Journal of the
American Chemical Society [JACS], The Journal of Organic Chemistry
[JOC], Tetrahedron Letters [TL] (in the main library except for
current issues which are in the reading room).

Course
format

Lectures
- MWF, 2:00 PM, HBC 215

Recitations - None scheduled, if you guys want some, let me know and we'll
find a time to get together. We do have a few in class problem sessions
scheduled. As always, questions are welcome at any time.

Assigned
homework - problems designed to enhance your understanding and prepare you
for testing situations. Some of these questions will be taken from the
literature (which means you can go look up the answers!). A key will be
posted immediately after class. No late homework will be accepted.

Laboratory - 8:00 - 11:50 AM, Thursday, in the Swing Lab, the labs
will be designed to probe mechanistic problems in organic chemistry.

Exams -
Exams will occur during the lab period of the indicated week. They should
be both fun and challenging.

Colloquium – Almost all of our colloquia have some synthetic/mechanistic
chemical content. Therefore a small portion of your grade is based on your
attendance at colloquium. You must attend 7 colloquia to obtain full
credit. If you are unable to attend colloquium due to a scheduling
conflict, you may obtain the points by summarizing appropriate
articles from the chemical literature. You should discuss this with
me before begin summarizing articles.

Grading scheme

a. The final grade is based on the number of points obtained out of
a possible 660 points. The points will be distributed as follows:

quizzes
55 points

exam 1
100
points

exam 2
100
points

exam
3
100 points

final exam
(cumulative) 124 points

laboratory
130 points

homework
50 points

colloquium
21 points

total
680 points

b. Assignment of letter grades is based on the following scale: 660
-612 A, 611 - 544 B, 543 - 476 C, 475 - 408 D, <
407 F. I reserve the right to curve the grades in your favor if
deemed appropriate based upon overall class performance and a qualitative
assessment of the difficulty of quizzes and exams. Also, if you score a
higher percentage on the final exam than one of your hour exams, I'll
replace the lower score with the higher (appropriately weighted). The
assignment of the final grade is also influenced by attendance and class
participation. This is especially true in the case of a student with a
borderline average.

Policy
on attendance for exams and quizzes Makeups will be administered only
if I deem the reason for absence to be legitimate (illness, death in the
family....). Absence due to transportation difficulties is not considered
legitimate.